A great deal of the non-putrescible refuse might be of use to the sanitary authority on the spot for making foundations for paths and roads, or for scattering on the streets in slippery or frosty weather.
The best method of treating kitchen waste and putrescible refuse, such as cabbage leaves and the trimmings of vegetables, &c.
Non-putrescible refuse is not a danger to health, and it is certain that a great deal of it might be used for various purposes by the sanitary authority.
The first division is into putrescible and non-putrescible, and the former should be sent forthwith to the farmer to be dug into the ground.
It is not because the boiled meats or vegetables are not putrescible or fermentable, as those who have had the misfortune to be in a ship supplied with unskilfully closed tins well know.
Helmholtz separated a putrefying or a fermenting liquid from one which was simply putrescible or fermentable by a membrane which allowed the fluids to pass through and become intermixed, but stopped the passage of solids.
Fed with such air, in the great majority of cases the putrescible liquids remained perfectly sweet after boiling.
We have now to devise a means of testing the action of such spontaneously purified air upon putrescible infusions.
By means of a membrane, he separated a sterilised putrescible liquid from a putrefying one.
Twenty-seven putrescible infusions, first in vacuo, and afterwards supplied with the most invigorating air, have shown no sign of putrefaction or of life.
The fresh but putrescible liquid is introduced into the six tubes in succession by means of the pipette.
Even the most putrescible of these may be preserved for an unlimited period by enclosure in metallic cases, or glass bottles, from which the air has been completely removed and excluded.
Wernick that an ordinary water-trap entirely prevents the passage of these germs, and that organic putrescible fluid will remain unchanged when exposed only to the air immediately {190} above such a trap.
Their use is apt to be followed by undue inflammation, probably of septic origin, for they almost invariably contain putrescent or readily putrescible elements.
The fermentative saprophyte is as absolutely essential to the setting up of destructive rotting or putrescence in a putrescible fluid as the torula is to the setting up of alcoholic fermentation in a saccharine fluid.
So far, all these conclusive experiments had been made only on organic liquids, very putrescible it is true, but which had all been subjected to boiling or even to temperatures higher than 100 degrees Centigrade.
And thus it becomes possible to understand how anaerobic organisms may be sown in putrescible liquids by the dust suspended in the atmosphere.
I affirm,' said Pasteur, 'that everywhere it is possible to take from the midst of the atmosphere a certain quantity of air which contains neither egg nor spore, and which does not produce organisms in putrescible solutions.
Having by means of ingenious experimental arrangements deprived some air of all living germs, he placed in contact with this pure air the most putrescible liquids, particularly venous blood, arterial blood, and urine.
In the bulb he placed some very putrescible liquids--urine for example.
Now Pasteur puts together air andputrescible liquids and nothing is produced.
The importance of "Dutch cleanliness" in our houses, and the abolition of all collections of putrescible matter in and around our houses, is abundantly evident.
It is highly probable, judging from the results of experiments, that every collection of putrescible matter is potentially a productive focus of microbes.
Where there is overcrowding, the collections of putrescible filth are multiplied, and with them probably the productive foci of infective particles.
When full it should be thoroughly emptied and cleaned out; for the matter left at the bottom of a cesspit is liable to be in a highly putrescible condition.
It is, moreover, necessary to produce a movement of air and ventilation in the house drain pipes to aerate the pipe and to oxidize any putrescible products which may be in it.
Cleanliness in leather manufacture is as essential at the commencement as anywhere, for the hide is in its most putrescible state.
All these materials are of course readily putrescible and must be put "into work" without much loss of time.
He even demonstrated that a putrescible fluid like blood will remain unchanged in an open vessel so constructed as to exclude atmospheric dust.
To prove his contention he set out for Arbois with a large number of glass bulbs each half filled with a putrescible liquid.
Before they were known, cleanliness and the destruction of putrescible matter in man's surroundings had, it is true, been urged by sanitary reformers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "putrescible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
